by Javier Cánovas | Nov 29, 2018 | Community, research
In the last years, a number of Open-Source Systems (OSS) have created parallel foundations, as legal instruments to better articulate the structure, collaboration and financial model for the project. Some examples are Apache, Linux, Mozilla, Eclipse or Django...
by Jordi Cabot | Aug 14, 2018 | AI, Community, research
We live in a software-enabled world. Software is the infrastructure that powers our digital society. And yet, software development is in a permanent state of crisis. Improvements in programming tools, languages and methods have not been able to keep up with the...
by Jordi Cabot | Jan 10, 2018 | Code, research, Tool
Libraries.io monitors over 2 million open source libraries/packages from 36 package managers (npm, maven, Pypi, etc) and gathers relevant information about each of them, including their license, releases, contributors and dependencies among them. Libraries.io was...
by Javier Cánovas | Dec 28, 2017 | Community, research, Tool
The development of software projects entails significant implementation and collaboration activities, typically supported by tools such as issue trackers, code review tools, and Version Control Systems. However, these tools only provide a partial view of the project...
by Javier Cánovas | May 30, 2017 | Community, research
We (Valerio, Jordi and myself) have continued our meta-analysis of research papers on how software development practices are influenced by the use of a distributed social coding platform like GitHub (see our initial work in this area). Our objective is to identify...
by Jordi Cabot | Feb 18, 2016 | Community, research
Following up on our introductory post in the topic I’m now “releasing” the full B1 Research Proposal document I submitted to the ERC Consolidator Grant 2016 focused on the study of open source communities. If you want full details of the proposal...
